Wire support



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WIRE SUPPORT Filed Oct. 15, 1948 EDWARD KLINGEL Patented June 6, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WIRE SUPPORT Edward L. Klingel, West St. Paul, Minn.

Application October 15, 1948, Serial No. 54,703

3 Claims. 1

My invention relates to wire supports and has for an object to provide a support whereby an electrical service consisting of a twisted pair of wires may be supported and attached to a building or other supporting structure without injuring the insulation on the Wire.

Another object of the invention resides in providing a construction whereby the twisted pair may be supported intermediate its ends and whereby the running parts of the wires may be used as a lead-in.

A still further object of the invention resides in constructing the support in such a manner that the same may be formed of porcelain or other insulating material.

An object of the invention resides in providing a wire support adapted to be used in conjunction with a pair of wires, the wires being bent back upon themselves to form juxtaposed running parts and standing parts connected together by loops and being further bent to form inner bends disposed inwardly of the loops.

Another object of the invention resides in constructing the support with a body having a bore extending through the same for the reception of the running and standing parts of the wires and having posts upon the exterior of the body and about which the loops of the wires may extend.

A still further object of the invention resides in constructing the posts with seats engaged by the loops of the wires and in further constructing the body proper with seats engaged by the inner bends of the wires.

A feature of the invention resides in arranging said seats so that the seats on the posts face in the opposite direction from the seats on the body proper.

An object of the invention resides in constructing the body substantially cylindrical in form with the bore at the axis of the body and in further constructing the body with grooves extending along the exterior thereof and parallel with said bore, said grooves forming between the same said posts.

Another object of the invention resides in providing said body at one end with seats extending between said bore and grooves and said posts with seats located at the end of said body opposite said first named seats and extendin between adjacent grooves.

A further object of the invention resides in providing an attaching member for the support, said member having reaches disposed in certain of said grooves and engaging certain of said posts.

Other objects of the invention reside in the novel combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter illustrated and/or described.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved wire support attached to a supporting structure and showing the same with a pair of twisted wires supported thereby.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an elevational sectional view taken on line 44 of Fig. 1.

My invention consists of a body ill to which the Wires to be supported are secured. This body has connected to it an attaching member 1 I which is directly secured to a hook 28 mounted on the building or other supporting structure to which the wires are to be attached. These portions of the device together with the structures with which they are to be used will now be described in detail.

The invention is particularly useful in connection with pairs of insulated wires, one such pair being indicated at [2 in the drawing. This pair consists of two wires [3 and M which comprise a metal core I5 and a cover 16 of insulating material. These wires are twisted about one another to hold the wires together. At the locality where the wires are to be supported, the two wires I3 and I4 are bent back upon themselves as illustrated in Fig. 1 to form two loops I1 and I8, one in each wire, said loops having spaced reaches I20. In addition, the said wires are formed with inner bends 2! and 22. By means of these bends, the wires it and M are formed with standing parts 23 which may be the parts which are connected to the station from which the pair extends and with running parts 24 which form the lead-in. These parts of the wires, including the loops I! and I8 and the bends 2i and 22, are used in holding the wires attached to the support as will become presently evident.

The body I0 is substantially cylindrical in form being constructed with a cylindrical surface 25 and with ends 21 and 28. The said body is further constructed with a bore 25 extending throughout the length thereof and disposed at the axis of said body. This bore is open at both of its ends. In the surface 26 of the body H3 is formed eight longitudinally extending grooves 3|, 32, 33, 34, 35, 3B, 3'! and 38. These grooves are parallel to the bore 25 and form therebe tween posts 4|, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 41 and 43. In the end 21 of the body I0 is formed grooves 39 which extend between the bore 25 and the grooves 3 3| and 32. In a similar manner grooves 49 extend between the bore 25 and the grooves 35 and 35. In addition, grooves i are formed in the ends of the posts 4! and Q5 and which extend between the grooves 3| and 32 and between the grooves 35 and 36. Similar grooves 52 are formed in the ends of the posts 43 and 41 which extend between the grooves 33 and M and be.- tween the grooves 3'! and 38. The bottoms of the various grooves formed in the posts and in the end of the body are constructed curved to form seats 53 adapted to engage the parts of the wires associated with the body.

The attaching member M is constructed from wire being bent intermediate its ends to form a loop 55 and two spaced reaches 55 and 56. The loop 54 is adapted to be hooked over the hook 211. The reaches 55 and 56 extend along the grooves 34 and 38 of the body I8 and are bent back upon themselves to form loops 5? which are received in the grooves 52 in posts 43 and ll. This construction provides reaches 58 which lie in the grooves 33 and 37 and which project beyond the end 27 of the body iii. The ends 59 of these reaches are bent about the reaches 55 and 56 and hold the parts secured together.

In the use of the invention, the twisted pair of wires is bent back upon itself at the desired locality to form the two loops I l and i8 and the standing and running parts 23 and 24. These parts are then inserted into the bore 2% in the said body with the loops I! and I8 projecting beyond the end 2? of said body. The parts of the wire extending beyond the end 21 of the body are then formed with the bends 2i and 22 and the loops I! and is directed into the grooves 5| with the adjacent reaches I20 of the wires disposed in the grooves 31 and 32 and in the grooves 35 and 36. Upon drawing the standing and running parts of the wires taut, the loops I l and 58 are urged firmly against the seats 53 formed by the bottoms of the grooves 51 and the bends 2| and 22 are urged firmly against the seats 53 formed by the bottoms of the grooves 39 and 4 9. When so di posed, tension on the standing part 23 of the wires will not cause the wires to slide along the support and the running part 24 may be run to the desired locality and allowed to have slack in the same where said part attaches to the building.

The advantages of the invention are manifest. By means of the construction disclosed, several bends are formed in the parts of the wires which resist pulling out of the wires from the support. The body of the support can be constructed of insulating material and when so constructed, should the insulation wear away at the locality where the wires engage the support, no shorting of the wires will occur. At no place is pressure placed on the wires where the same are twisted together or cross one another and which would tend to short the wires. Thus it becomes impossible with the invention to short the wires in the event of deterioration of the insulation by pressure of the wires on the seats. My invention can be constructed at an economical cost and is neat and attractive in appearance. The wires can be applied to the support quickly and with-.- out soldering or splicing. The slack in the wires can easily be taken up by pushing the standing part of the wires through the bore in the insulator and reforming the loop and bent portions of the wires.

Changes in the specific form of my invention, as herein described, may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the sp r o m n e tion Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a pair of wires, the wires of which are bent back upon themselves to form juxtaposed running and standing parts connected together by loops disposed at the bends of the wires, said wires having inner bends disposed inwardly of said loops, a support comprising a body having a bore extending through the same for the reception of the running and standing parts of the wires, said body having eight grooves formed therein to provide eight posts therebetween, the parts of said wires beyond said bore bein received within certain of said grooves and embracing two of said posts situated on opposite sides of said body and an attaching member comprising two wire loops embracing the posts intermediate the post to which are attached, the intermediate posts separating the attaching member from the wires.

2. In combination with a pair of wires, the wires of which are bent back upon themselves to form juxtaposed running and standing parts connected together by loops disposed at the bends of the wires and having spaced reaches and fur.- ther formed with inner bends disposed inwardly of the loops, the reaches of the loop extending in the same general direction as the running and standing parts of the wires and being spaced from projections on said body on opposite sides of said bore. e t f med on he en of a body f o which the loops of the wires issue, said inner bends resting against said seats, and seats formed on said projections at the opposite end of the body, said loops straddling said projections with the reaches of said loops disposed on opposite sides thereof and with the ends of said loops resting against said second named seats.

3. In a wire suppOrt, a body substantially cylindrical in form and having a bore therein coaxially disposed with reference thereto and extending from end to end thereof and completely through said body, said body having eight longitudinally extending grooves formed in the outer portion thereof and forming in said body a like number of posts, a post on'one side of the body and a post on the opposite side of the body having seats on the ends of the same and at the same end of the body extending between the grooves adjacent said posts, seats at the other end of the body disposed between said grooves and said bore, seats on the ends of the posts midway between said do:

noted posts and at the same end of the body as the seats on-the first named Posts, said last named seats extending between the grooves adjacent the posts on whic the re ormed. nd a wire attaching member having loops straddling said last an sd e s and Seated st a last named sea EDWARD 5-, KL NG L,

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